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The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949)

The Mystery of the Yellow Room poster
Original title
Le Mystère de la chambre jaune
Directed by
Henri Aisner
Genre
crime film, mystery film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A journalist investigates an attempted murder in a locked room at a country estate. The case involves a famous scientist and his daughter.

mysteriousatmosphericclassicintriguingslow-burnpuzzlingsuspenseful

What happens

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (French: Le mystère de la chambre jaune) is a 1949 French mystery film directed by Henri Aisner and starring Hélène Perdrière, Serge Reggiani and Pierre Renoir. It is an adaptation of the 1907 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. It was followed by a sequel The Perfume of the Lady in Black, released the same year. There were other film adaptations of the novel, in 1919, 1930, and 2003. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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